Coroner Ke Xue

From a legal perspective, the investigation should not allow the suspect to prove his or her innocence, but rather allow the police to produce evidence proving the crime.

The previous prisoners were all bent on using tricks to prove their "innocence", but in the end, evidence was left behind.

But now, Hongshang Wuyi is smarter.

She has repeatedly claimed her innocence.

Although her behavior seems extremely suspicious.

The two colleagues standing aside also firmly believed in Miss Hongshang:

"Miss Hongshang can't be the murderer?"

"She has no grievances with Kamata, and she is also a gentle and kind girl."

Mr. Mitani spoke out to support him.

Ms. Noda immediately echoed:

"Yes, Hongshang is famous for her kindness in our hospital."

"Among the staff at Mihua Hospital, she is the one who cares most about her patients."

"Hongshang is a good man and cannot kill anyone."

"." Both Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan were speechless:

Good people also kill people, it's not a contradiction.

The trust of her colleagues cannot erase her suspicion.

However, Hongshang Wuyi herself is not afraid of being suspected.

She just wanted the police to produce evidence:

evidence

If she were the murderer, where would she leave evidence?

"There should be a container that she discarded at the scene to keep the poisonous ice cubes warm." Mao Lilan tried to come up with an idea: "For example, a thermal box? Or a small purse filled with dry ice?"

"It's not that simple." Kudo Shinichi shook his head:

"People from the forensics class are currently surveying the scene. I believe they will be able to find the container that holds the ice cubes soon."

"But it is easy to find the container, but it is almost impossible to extract the fingerprints and skin scraps left by the murderer from it."

"After all, assuming that Mai Hongshang is the murderer, if she dares to face the police's suspicions like this, she has enough confidence in her counter-reconnaissance preparations."

"Any traces of possible contamination on the container must have been handled carefully by her."

"and"

"That may be a bag or an insulated box. It is just a container used to hold poisonous ice cubes. It will not come into direct contact with potassium cyanide."

"There's definitely no detectable potassium cyanide content on it."

"In this case, let alone catching the murderer with this, we can't even prove that it is a prop used by the murderer to commit crimes."

An idea was blocked.

And according to this idea, look at it from the least optimistic scenario:

Since the murderer can confidently face the suspicion of the police, would she have carefully handled the key links that she obviously noticed when she stole potassium cyanide in the hospital and made poisonous ice cubes at home?

"It's no use just thinking like that."

"Her home, hospital, these links that can be thought of without reasoning, will naturally have the police responsible for investigating."

"We are still focusing on finding evidence from the scene."

Kudo Shinichi reacted:

"And if you want to find evidence from the scene."

"Then we must find out the detailed process that Hongshang Wuyi went through after getting the drink, and restore her every move at that time, so that we can find possible flaws in it."

They have already asked Hongshang Wuyi for his own statement.

If you want to learn more about the specific circumstances before the crime, you have to find witnesses from the scene.

Although it is difficult to find witnesses who accidentally witnessed Koshang Mai's actions and can still leave an impression.

But this is still a clue, and I have to give it a try.

And there was no need for Mao Lilan and Kudo Shinichi to remind them. Before they took action, the people who searched the first lesson had already been busy with the tiring work of visiting the people at the scene.

After all this searching, a witness actually came forward.

"Yuanzi, is that you?"

Mao Lilan and Kudo Shinichi were both a little surprised:

"Have you met the Miss Hongshang Wuyi before the incident?"

"That's right."

Suzuki Sonoko answered truthfully:

"At that time, uh."

"Didn't the show be postponed due to some 'technical reasons'?"

"Technical reasons, delay?"

Miss Maori looked innocent:

“It turns out that the performance itself has been delayed.”

"No wonder we were 2 or 3 minutes late and you didn't come to the dressing room to rush us."

"No, that's right."

"So I didn't go to the dressing room at all. Haha."

Miss Suzuki laughed awkwardly twice, and then tried her best to avoid the topic as if running for her life:

"Anyway, the show was announced to be postponed at that time."

"And because the 'technical reasons' are beyond our control, when I announced the delay to everyone, I was unable to give a specific delay time."

"And that's when."

"Other spectators were waiting in their seats calmly."

"Only the Hongshang dance girl. After I announced that the show was postponed, she couldn't wait to come over and ask me how long the show would be delayed and when the show would start."

"Looking at her appearance at that time, she seemed a little anxious."

Suzuki Sonoko instinctively grasped the suspiciousness of this matter:

"She was holding four drinks in her hand, as if she had just bought the drinks and was sending them back to her companions."

"But Miss Hongshang did not return to the audience after asking me questions."

"But she stood by the wall for a while, as if thinking about something, and then she put the dinner plate on the window sill by the wall and walked towards the bathroom."

"What happens next?"

"Did anyone approach that window ledge in the next few minutes?"

Mao Lilan and Kudo Shinichi opened their eyes wide.

They all can't wait to know the follow-up, which is the most critical, the few minutes of gap that make it possible that the real murderer is someone else.

"This." Suzuki Sonoko shook her head helplessly: "I don't know either."

"Not long after she left, the two of you settled the 'technical reasons'."

"I was so busy preparing for the opening of the show that I stopped paying attention to that woman."

Suzuki Sonoko didn't see those most critical minutes.

But her words still made Mao Lilan and Kudo Shinichi deep in thought:

"Hongshang Wuyi went to ask about the start time of the performance."

"Besides, your expression is a little anxious?"

With this information, Hongshang Wuyi's experience before the crime can be restored almost completely:

She first got a drink from Ayako Ninagawa.

Then when I heard Suzuki Sonoko announcing to everyone that the performance was postponed, I grabbed a drink and eagerly asked for the specific start time of the performance.

After receiving the reply that "the start time of the performance cannot be determined," she did not send the drink back to her seat, but stood by the wall and thought for a while.

Then, because of "sudden physical discomfort", Hongshang Mai casually put the drink on the window sill by the wall and went to the toilet alone.

A few minutes later, she finished using the toilet, came back to get a drink, returned to her seat, and handed the drink to Mr. Kamata.

At this time, the performance just started.

"The breakthrough may have been found!"

Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan looked at each other, each seeing excitement and excitement in the other's eyes.

"Where is the breakthrough?"

Suzuki Sonoko was confused.

"It's very simple." Kudo Shinichi smiled confidently:

"You just announced that the performance was postponed, and Ms. Hongshang couldn't wait to find you to ask about the start time of the performance."

"It shows that she is in a hurry to get the show started."

This is the school festival of Didan High School, and the audience is composed of parents and former alumni.

They didn't come here for the performance itself, so even if they saw the performance was delayed, they wouldn't feel anxious for a while.

But Hongshang Wuyi was anxious.

She was anxious for another reason:

"Because she has discovered that the iced coffee she got in her hand was replaced by Coke by Ayako Ninagawa."

Before Kudo Shinichi opened his mouth, Mao Lilan naturally followed up with his reasoning:

"If the drink is sent directly back to the seat, and Mr. Kamata finds that his drink has been replaced with Coke, he will most likely take the Coke he got to the drink stand to change it."

"This is the outcome the murderer never wanted to see."

"so."

Mao Lilan paused for a moment, and then it was Kudo Shinichi who spoke:

"So she decided to send the drinks back just in time for the show to start."

"When the show starts, the lights in the venue will dim and the drink stalls will temporarily close."

"As a result, Mr. Kamata can't change his drink and can only drink the Coke with poison ice cubes."

"But the problem is."

"The problem is" Miss Maori immediately performed a duet between men and women: "The performance was suddenly delayed!"

“Moreover, due to technical reasons, I don’t know when the delay will start again.”

"This greatly disrupts Miss Hongshang's plan."

"And it also pushed her into a difficult situation:"

"She wouldn't dare send the drinks back to her seats until the show started."

"But if you don't send drinks back, even if Mr. Kamata and others are not suspicious, the ice cubes will melt in the cola sooner or later, ruining her plan of 'delayed poisoning' and 'faked suicide'."

"Yes--"

"By that time, she had added poisonous ice cubes to the coke."

"That's why she was so anxious, and even made the garden notice her strange expression!"

Mao Lilan and Kudo Shinichi came to this conclusion in unison.

"Um" Suzuki Sonoko was still confused: "Is this the 'breakthrough' you are talking about?"

Although the suspect's situation at the time was restored to a realistic level.

But this is all speculation, where is the evidence?

"The evidence hasn't been found yet."

"But it gives us an indication of the possibility of finding evidence."

"If that evidence can be found, even if it cannot directly prove that she poisoned and killed people, it can still prove that her confession contains elements of lies."

"This contradictory confession, coupled with her own suspicion, is enough to convict her in court!"

Mao Lilan and Kudo Shinichi finished these words in harmony.

Then they went to look for evidence side by side without looking back.

"Well, what are they looking for?"

Suzuki Sonoko still didn't understand.

However, looking at the backs of "Sister Chris" and Mao Lilan walking away hand in hand.

"These two reasoning madmen."

"Looks like they match up well?"

As the most steadfast Newland Party leader, Miss Suzuki's belief is actually wavering.

The second is later